Any printers? Mailshots...
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For 150, you could do them yourself more quickly than send everything somewhere else!
If you get your setup right, it doesn't take long. Get C5 windowed envelopes so it is only one fold and set up a template to mail merge so that their address is in the top right of the letter.
Print, one fold, insert, self seal. 30 mins tops.
If you want to save time you can get a machine for a couple of hundred that will do the folding.
We've also got a smallish machine which you stack your letters and envelopes in and it folds, inserts and seals. Cost about a grand.
If you get your setup right, it doesn't take long. Get C5 windowed envelopes so it is only one fold and set up a template to mail merge so that their address is in the top right of the letter.
Print, one fold, insert, self seal. 30 mins tops.
If you want to save time you can get a machine for a couple of hundred that will do the folding.
We've also got a smallish machine which you stack your letters and envelopes in and it folds, inserts and seals. Cost about a grand.
JustinP1 said:
If you get your setup right, it doesn't take long. Get C5 windowed envelopes so it is only one fold and set up a template to mail merge so that their address is in the top right of the letter.
Print, one fold, insert, self seal. 30 mins tops.
That's what I currently do. It's the printing that takes it's time - may print mailmerge to pdf and see if a local printers will just print them out quickly for me.Print, one fold, insert, self seal. 30 mins tops.
Quite like the thought of a machine that folds them though....
As said for that sort of quantity you are going to be in the minimum charge from most places. What is it that you are printing exactly?
Also it depends on how valuable your time is to you and your business as to if that is a good idea or not.
If you are printing the whole lot on a slow office printer getting 10-20 pages per minute then this is your problem. I am guessing a bit here on what your doing but i would suggest you get a base stationary (letterhead etc) printed properly in bulk say a years supply. Invest in a second user high end office printer that will produce approx 50 pages a minute mono print. An example that is widely used is the HP laserjet 9000 they come up quite regularly on ebay for around £100 - £200 then as mentioned you can simply set up a mail merge and bang the letters out in a couple of minutes.
On top of this there are desktop machines that will fold and insert at a basic level that you can pick up, two of the main manufactures being neopost and bell & howell, I don't have any experience of this type of machine or the costs but they are available.
We did have one client that started along your lines with a few hundered a week and we did the whole lot for them on a min cost baais, but as it proved successful and they grew then we grew the system to do what they wanted and it now generates 20ish different letters onto 10 different letterheads and incorporates all sorts of offers etc that are personalised to each recipient on the fly, enclose it and mail it out twice a month. If this is more the sort of thing that you are after, or where you want to go then you may be better talking to a mailing house as the investment in technology to do that quickly will be high and may be more of a pain than you want to get into.
As said alot of this is based on guess work of what you are mailing and if you have the time etc, but if you want any more info feel free to pm me.
Glyn
Also it depends on how valuable your time is to you and your business as to if that is a good idea or not.
If you are printing the whole lot on a slow office printer getting 10-20 pages per minute then this is your problem. I am guessing a bit here on what your doing but i would suggest you get a base stationary (letterhead etc) printed properly in bulk say a years supply. Invest in a second user high end office printer that will produce approx 50 pages a minute mono print. An example that is widely used is the HP laserjet 9000 they come up quite regularly on ebay for around £100 - £200 then as mentioned you can simply set up a mail merge and bang the letters out in a couple of minutes.
On top of this there are desktop machines that will fold and insert at a basic level that you can pick up, two of the main manufactures being neopost and bell & howell, I don't have any experience of this type of machine or the costs but they are available.
We did have one client that started along your lines with a few hundered a week and we did the whole lot for them on a min cost baais, but as it proved successful and they grew then we grew the system to do what they wanted and it now generates 20ish different letters onto 10 different letterheads and incorporates all sorts of offers etc that are personalised to each recipient on the fly, enclose it and mail it out twice a month. If this is more the sort of thing that you are after, or where you want to go then you may be better talking to a mailing house as the investment in technology to do that quickly will be high and may be more of a pain than you want to get into.
As said alot of this is based on guess work of what you are mailing and if you have the time etc, but if you want any more info feel free to pm me.
Glyn
I have started to use the guys at http://www.cfhdocmail.com for direct mail campaigns. If you already have the DB ready then its very cheap and simple!
Primo said:
Broccers said:
You are probably better handing over say 600 getting them printed, folded and inserted into c5 windows. All delivered back to you for you frank / stamp whenever you choose.
Happy to give you a cost simonb @sprinta.co.uk
Email sent, minus the space Happy to give you a cost simonb @sprinta.co.uk
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